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Chemical Reaction Engineering Tutorial

The document outlines a tutorial for Chemical Reaction Engineering-II, focusing on adsorption processes and reactor analysis. It includes tasks such as constructing concentration and exit age distribution figures, calculating mean residence times, and assessing experimental consistency using tracer curves. The tutorial is structured around various problems involving data interpretation and reactor performance evaluation.

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Chemical Reaction Engineering Tutorial

The document outlines a tutorial for Chemical Reaction Engineering-II, focusing on adsorption processes and reactor analysis. It includes tasks such as constructing concentration and exit age distribution figures, calculating mean residence times, and assessing experimental consistency using tracer curves. The tutorial is structured around various problems involving data interpretation and reactor performance evaluation.

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Department of Chemical Engineering, NITK

CH300 : Chemical Reaction Engineering-II


Tutorial-I

Name:
Date :12-08-2025

(1) An aqueous solution containing valuable solute is colored by small amounts of an impurity.
It is to be decolorized by adsorption of an impurity on an adsorptive carbon. The equilibrium
data obtained by stirring various amounts of adsorbent with original solution at constant
temperature as follows.

Table 1

The measurements represent the exact concentrations at the times listed and not average
values between the various sampling tests.

(a) Construct figures showing C(t) and E(t) as functions of time.


(b) Determine both the fraction of maternal leaving the reactor that has spent between 3
and 6 min in the reactor and the fraction of material leaving that bas spent between 7.75
and 8.25 min in the reactor.
(c) determine the fraction of material leaving the reactor that has spent 3 min or less in
the reactor.
(d) Calculate the mean residence time and the variance for the reactor.

(2) The concentration readings in Table 2, represent a continuous response to a pulse input
into a closed vessel which is to be used as a chemical reactor. Calculate the mean residence
time of fluid in the vessel t, and tabulate and plot the exit age distribution E.

Table 2
(3) A large tank (860 liters) is used as a gas-liquid contactor. Gas bubbles up through the
vessel and out the top, liquid flows in at one part and out the other at 5 liters/s. To get an
idea of the flow pattern of liquid in this tank a pulse of tracer (No = 150 gm) is injected at
the liquid inlet and measured at the outlet, as shown in Fig. 1
(a) Is this a properly done experiment?
(b) If so, find the liquid fraction in the vessel.

Fig 1

(4) A pulse input to a vessel gives the results shown in Fig. 2


(a) Check the material balance with the tracer curve to see whether the results are
consistent.
(b) If the result is consistent, determine t, V and E curve.

Fig 2
(5) A pulse input to a vessel gives the results shown in Fig. 3
(a) Are the results consistent? (Check the material balance with the experimental tracer
curve.)
(b) If the results are consistent, determine the amount of tracer introduced No, and the E
curve. (HOME WORK)

Fig 3

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